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Muhammad Kaiser Abdul Karim My research involves oligodendrocytes and its progenitors which I derive from human pluripotent stem cells through forced expression of key transcription factors, a method called forward programming. My goal is to use these cells to study oligoden...

Wafa Abutaleb M MStroke is associated with unstable carotid plaque. Hence, the importance of characterizing vulnerable plaques. In my study I am using two novel imaging methods: dynamic contrast MRI and microbubble ultrasound perfusion. Images are to be analysed t...

Dr Natalie AdamsWith a background in electrophysiology and the mechanisms of oscillatory dynamics I am trying to understand the changes in network interactions in behavioural variant FTD and why those changes occur.

Dr Richard AdamsMy group is interested in the mechanisms of morphogenesis that shape the early central nervous system. Using zebrafish as a developmental model, we image the movements of many hundreds of cells using time-lapse micoscopy. Applying methods of image...

Mr Dwaipayan AdhyaAutism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder. Studies have shown that it affects more males than females. Prenatal exposure to sex steroids, especially, testosterone have been shown to be related to development of autism. Epigenetic changes hav...

Professor Franklin AigbirhioResearch in the development and application of molecular imaging probes, in particular for the in vivo imaging technique of positron emission tomography. Objectives are to design, develop and apply imaging probes that are specific and selective to...

Dr Mike AitkenMy research interests include human associative learning, and the role of this learning in intuitive and reflective decision-making systems, including gambling behaviour. Much of my research has involved causal and categorical judgments, with more...

Dr Talal Al-MayhaniGlioblastoma (GBM) is the most common type of primary brain malignancies. Patients face dismal prognosis with survival rate of less than 5% at tow years post-diagnosis. The fact that this figure has not changed significantly over the last 2-3 deca...

Dr Aftab AlamMy main research focus is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with special emphasis on Microglia Dynamics.

Mr Laith AlexanderMy research focuses on the neurobiology of emotion and emotional regulation. In particular, I am interested in how prefrontal cortical regions (area 25 and 32) subserve the regulation of emotional states. Using sophisticated techniques in behaviou...

Dr Xana AlmeidaDuring neural development the proper number of each specific cell type must be generated at the correct time and place. Thus, a precise balance between cell division, cell survival, cell cycle exit and differentiation must be achieved. However, th...

Dr Johan AlsiöMy main research interest is the cognitive control over behaviour in health and disease. I am currently studying the neurobiological basis of cognitive flexibility in the intact brain and in preclinical models of schizophrenia.

Joao Nuno AlvesChondroitinase is a promising candidate for the treatment of human spinal cord injury (SCI). It is a bacterial enzyme that cleaves glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains from chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans, which present a major barrier to nerve regen...

Miss Lucie AmanI am working on psychosis in Prader Willi syndrome. PWS is a rare genetic disease characterised by hyperphagia, poor muscle tone, intellectual disability, and mental health problems such as depression anxiety and psychosis.
PWS is caused by the l...

Professor Michael AndersonDr. Anderson focuses on fundamental mechanisms of memory, attention, and cognitive control, and their interaction. A central observation is that memory, like other aspects of cognition and behaviour, poses problems of control. Dr. Anderson uses ...

Dr Byron AndrewsI'm a life scientist with a mitochondrial background. At the moment, I am looking at the molecular basis of neurodegeneration using quantitative proteomics and structural analysis.

Dr Melissa AndrewsMy research focuses on assessing the localization and transport of ectopically expressed integrins in adult CNS, in order to better target integrins to sites of injury for therapeutic treatment. We have shown that enhancing the regeneration of do...

Dr Richard AnsorgeMy current interests include hardware and software development for various medical imaging modalities, especially PET and MRI. This work is done in close collaboration with the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. One particular current project is the d...

Dr Annemieke Apergis-SchouteI study how humans acquire emotions, in particular fear, and most importantly how to extinguish negative memories or how to have control over negative states. I did my PhD at New York University where I studied with Professor Joseph LeDoux & Profe...

Dr Dace ApšvalkaI study the brain mechanisms of memory and thought control in humans.

Dr Nikitas A. ArnaoutoglouI am a visiting researcher at the Department of Psychiatry under the supervision of Prof. J.T. O'Brien and a clinical fellow in old age psychiatry at the Cambridge & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. My field of interest is clinical symptoms, emo...

Dr Gonzalo ArrondoMy research is centered in the study of the relationship between high-order decision making and emotion in neuropsyquiatric patients such as those with depression. For this aim my main tools are functional neuroimaging (specifically fMRI), cogniti...

Dr Peter Arthur-FarrajI am a neurology registrar with an interest in neuromuscular disorders and nerve repair. I have recently been awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship, to work with Professor Michael Coleman’s group at the John Van Geest Cen...

Miss Athina AruldassImmunological interplay in pathoetiology of mood disorders is a long-standing concept dating back to the early 20th century. Over the past two decades, irrefutable evidence linking peripheral inflammation i.e. blood inflammatory markers, and depre...

Dr Anat ArziConsciousness is a central aspect of our experience of the world. The neural fingerprint of this experience, however, remains one of the least understood aspects of the human brain. No agreement has yet emerged on which aspects of brain function u...

Moataz AssemI study the brain mechanisms of attention that allow the construction of goal-directed behavior.

Dr Duncan AstleMy research programme was established in 2012, supporting the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit’s strategic priority of understanding cognition and the brain in typical and atypical development, and reflecting the MRC’s emphasis on developmental a...

Dr Adam AttaheriLanguage is a rhythmic stimulus made up of multiple sound waves occurring at multiple timescales. In a similar fashion, our brains are continually producing multiple waves of electricity at different frequencies and we call these brain waves ‘cort...

Juliet AungierResearch in the Morton lab is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and on developing strategies to delay or prevent the death of neurones in injured or degenerating brain, particularly in Huntington's disease (HD). ...

Professor Topun AustinI am a Consultant Neonatologist in Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics at University College London and have an interest in brain injury and imaging in the newborn.
I lead the Evelyn Perinatal Imaging Centre (EPIC), based at the Ro...

Dr Bonnie AuyeungBonnie Auyeung is a researcher at the University's Autism Research Centre, where her primary research examines the effects of prenatal hormones on psychological and neural postnatal development.

Chiara AvanciniI am starting a PhD course under the supervision of Dr Denes Szucs. I will study the electrophysiology of numerical cognition with a focus on mathematical anxiety.
I am also working on a project investigating the neural correlates of the integrati...